porosis

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noun

The formation of callus; the knitting together of broken bones.

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Meanings

nounporosis (usually uncountable, plural poroses)

plural poroses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe formation of callus; the knitting together of broken bones.

    Flat vertebrae and wedging spine of an aged woman who died from starvation are found as in the other malacic poroses.

    1971, Herbert Junghanns, Georg Schmorl, E. F. Besemann, The Human Spine in Health and Disease, page 119
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